Ever AI under fire for using photo app images to train facial biometrics without adequate transparency
Photo storage app Ever used images uploaded by customers to create albums in the cloud were used to develop Ever…
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AI training startup Chooch AI raises $2.8M led by Vickers Venture Partners
AI training startup Chooch.AI has raised a $2.8 million in a seed round led by VC firm Vickers Venture Partners…
Chooch AI launches mobile SDK for training facial biometrics and other AI vision systems
AI training startup Chooch AI has launched a new mobile software development kit (SDK) to beta to enable developers to…
IARPA expands research on protecting AI systems from tampering
The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is planning a pair of programs to prevent training data from…
Specific issues in artificial intelligence and biometrics brought up by Amazon controversies
An article analyzing Amazon’s public statements on the accuracy of facial recognition technology claims that the company “has obfuscated the…
IARPA launches procurement process for video data to advance biometric tracking and re-identification
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has issued a request for information (RFI) for data collection from camera networks…
Report questions ethics of image collection for AI facial biometric training datasets
Facial images used in datasets to train AI systems such as facial recognition are often collected without permission from the…
AI dataset companies strike $300M deal as market booms
Appen, an Australian company that provides specialized datasets for training artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, has acquired San Francisco-based…
U.S. House subcommittee to discuss diversity and bias in tech industry
Diversity in the tech industry – or the relative lack of it – is being discussed in a hearing by…
MIT researchers developing automated tool to ‘de-bias’ AI training data
A team at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is developing a solution which features an algorithm that…
